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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Festival in Books

Oct 1, 2020  
The Festival
The Festival
H.P. Lovecraft | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
173 of 200
Kindle
The Festival
 by H P Lovecraft

The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.
The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind." An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an "ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten."


I am still quite new to reading Lovecrafts work the things that strike me so much about him is his imagination and the way he translates what’s in his head to paper and does it so well! I’m really enjoying these little novellas!

I know not a huge review but I find myself getting bored with long winded explanations of how you should
Or shouldn't feel! With a classical author like this the work tends to speak for itself!
  
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Paper and Fire (The Great Library #2) in Books

May 31, 2020  
Paper and Fire (The Great Library #2)
Paper and Fire (The Great Library #2)
Rachel Caine | 2016 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
8
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
94 of 200
Book
Paper and fire ( Great Library book 2)
By Rachel Caine

 
LET THE WORLD BURN . . .

With an iron fist, the Great Library ruthlessly controls the knowledge of the world, forbidding the personal ownership of books in the name of the greater good. Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but his life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered for ever. Embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library’s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria.

But Jess’s home isn’t safe any more. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon Jess must choose between his friends, his family, or a Library willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control . . .




A really good follow up from the first book. Full of action! Such an intricate world Rachel has created, I can’t imagine a world where I’m told what I can and can’t read it’s my worst nightmare. It’s good to see the gang free Thomas and all come together looking forward to seeing how they get out of their new drama!!